Under-garment



(No Model.)

W. A. HARDER.

UNDER GARMENT.

No. 429,310. Patented June 3, 1890.

WITNESSES." INVENTUR.

UNITED STAT S PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM A. HARDER, OF LANSINGBURG, ASSIGNOR or ONE-HALF 'ro CHARLES A. BROWN, on TROY, NEW YoRK.

UNDER-GARMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 429,310, dated June 3, 1890.

Application filed March 6, 1890.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. HARDER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lansingburg, county of Rensselaer, and State of New York, have invented certain new and usefullmprovements in Under-Garments, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to such improvements; and it consists of the novel construction and combination of parts hereinafter described, and subsequently claimed.

Reference may be had to the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in the several figures therein.

It is well known that under-garments as heretofore constructed from plies of knitted fabric which have rough harsh surfaces are uncomfortable to the wearer, while thick and heavy under garments, suitable to the cold season, cannot be worn by sensitive persons; also, that the mechanism of knitting machinery tends to force the shives and other excrescences contained in the yarn to be knitted, and especially the harsh burrs found in all grades of woolen yarns, to the surfaces of the knitted fabrica part to one surface and a part to the other surface. I have ascertained that by the use of carefully-adjusted machinery and finely-spun yarn it is an easy matter to control the disposition ofthe burrs and other excrescences and force approximately all of them to one surface, which in tubular-knitted fabric is the outer surface, thus producing a thin light fabric, whichhas a smooth and soft surface on one side, agreeable to the most sensitive person, and a rough or burr surface 011 the other side unpleasant to the touch or sight. By superimposing two plies of such fabric, one upon the other, so as to inclose and conceal between them the rough and harsh surfaces, I am able to produce a two-ply fabric which will present a soft, smooth, and finished surface on both sides, from which an under garment can be made in any known manner that will be throughout its entire extent not only agreeable both to the sight and touch, but warm without being oppressive, and loose in text- Serial No. 342,906. (No model.)

,ure to permit the escape of exhalations from the body. The plies will tend to knit together and keep their shape and relative positions, like a single-ply fabric.

I have shown a preferred manner of making an under shirt in the drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a plan view of a flattened tubular web of fabric having the burrs, shives, and other harsh substances located upon the outer or exterior surface of the web. Fig. 2

is a plan View of the web folded by drawing one end over the other, so as to inclose and conceal the burrs and shives between the folded plies. Fig. 3 is a vertical longitudinal section of such folded plies, taken on the broken line 2 2 in Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is aview in elevation of a finished shirt.

A represents a flattened tube ofknitted fabric, having the outer surface comparatively rough and harsh and the inner surface soft, smooth, and approximately free from harsh excrescences. In making this tube into an under garment one end A of the tube is drawn over the other end A as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, making the walls of the tube double or two-ply, inclosing the rough surface between such plies and exposing smooth surfaces only both interiorly and exteriorly. The under garment or shirt Bis then formed from the folded fabric by closing one end of the flattened tube with a line of stitching B,

cutting out the neck-opening on the dotted line B and the sleeve-openings on the dotted lines B securing the sleeves B about the openings, and turning the shirt inside out, thus forming a new and useful article of manufacture. i M

I am aware that under-garments formed of knitted fabric have been re-enforced by doubling the fabric in various parts of the garment, and that gloves have been knitted double; but such garments were not made double throughout, nor were such under garments or gloves made from fabric plies having a rough or burr surface on one side only and a smooth surface on the other side, with the rough or burr surfaces inclosed and con- (ler garment composed throughout of two In testimony whereof I have hereunto set plies of knittedfahricsuperimposed one upon my hand this 5th day of March, 1890. the other, each ply having a smooth Surface approximately free from extraneous matter VILLIAM A. HARDER. 5 on one side and a rough surface 011 the other side, the rough surfaces being concealed be- \Vitnesses:

tween such superimposed plies, substantially GEO. A. MOSHER,

as described. FRANK C. CURTIS. 

